The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reiterated its firm stance against misconduct within the ranks as it vowed zero tolerance for personnel found engaging in illegal activities. PCG Commandant Adm. Ronnie Gil Gavan made the emphasis as he condemned a personnel of the Coast Guard Station (CGS) Manila...
CEBU CITY – At least 25 firearms were seized in line with the intensified campaign against loose firearms here this month. Police Lt. Col. Maria Theresa Macatangay, deputy city director for operations of the Cebu City Police Office, said these weapons were confiscated during the serving of...
CEBU CITY – Lives were saved when several illegal gun manufacturing sites were dismantled in Danao City, northern Cebu province, the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) said. The PRO-7 reported that from March 21 to May 20, 15 gun manufacturing sites were dismantled in an intensified...
ILOILO CITY – Police said the robust campaign against loose firearms prevented major election-related violence in Iloilo province. POLICE conduct a checkpoint in Leganes town, Iloilo province. (Tara Yap) The Iloilo Police Provincial Office said almost 250 firearms were retrieved beginning Jan....
Less than a month before the midterm elections in May, authorities arrested two Singaporeans and a Filipino allegedly involved in gun-running activities, and confiscated from them assorted high-powered firearms, the Philippine National Police (PNP) reported on Black Saturday, April 19. The PNP’s...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested five persons for illegal possession of firearms during a one-day search warrant operation in Iloilo and Capiz provinces on April 7. The Police Regional Office-6 said that four suspects were from Iloilo and one was from Capiz. A total of nine firearms were seized from...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga –The Police Regional Office-3 (Central Luzon) seized 603 loose firearms from Jan. 12 to March 3. PRO-3 Director Police Brig. Gen. Jean Fajardo said 599 were short firearms and four were light weapons. Two-hundred thirty of them were from Nueva...
CEBU CITY – The Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) vowed a more intensified campaign against loose firearms as the May election approaches. POLICE Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan, chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas, examines firearms turned over to the Cebu Provincial Police Office....
CAMP OLIVAS, San Fernando City, Pampanga – The Police Regional Office-3 recovered 260 loose firearms under the intensified Revitalized Katok campaign from Jan. 10 to Feb. 15. Police Regional Office-3 Director Police Brig. Gen. Jean S. Fajardo said the program strengthens the region’s efforts to...
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 has seized 158 loose firearms, two improvised explosive devices, and 132 bullets as it intensified the implementation of the election gun ban in the Caraga region. “No letup on election gun ban drive as campaign period...
The Nueva Ecija Police Provincial Office reported that 459 loose firearms were confiscated and surrendered in five months from September 2024 to January 2025. LOOSE guns seized in Nueva Ecija. Nueva Ecija police chief Police Col. Ferdinand Germino said 100 loose firearms were confiscated in...
CEBU CITY – As a result of an intensified campaign, at least 430 unlicensed firearms were confiscated last month in various areas in Central Visayas. POLICE Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan, chief of PRO-7, shows a cache of seized firearms to Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary...
